FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO RETURN SLAVERY EXHIBIT

A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to return a slavery exhibit it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia.  Last month work crews took down large display panels at Independence National Historical Park’s President’s House Site, where Presidents George Washington and John Adams once lived.  The judge cited the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984” in her ruling to grant the city’s request to restore the exhibit while litigation over their removal continues. The judge said, “the government can convey a different message without restraint elsewhere if it so pleases, but it cannot do so to the President’s House until it follows the law and consults with the City.”